Floria Floria

So, I went to the Putrajaya Flower & Garden Festival 2011 recently. Also known as Floria, it is a place for you to see flowers. That's all I can say about it, nothing much was going on when I was there, so less talk and more pictures for you to enjoy.

Yes, I Was Here

Everybody wrote something like: " ... was here"

Must have in any events now

A bed of flowers

The bed again.

Hot stuff.

Cool stuff.

A small bird house.

A small man's house.

There was a section where we can see gardens from around the world.

American inspired garden.

Close up. American?

Japanese I think.

Now let's go inside where there's more stuff and... AIR-COND! On the inside you can see exhibitions which comes in many sizes made by various artistes around the world. And again, AIR-COND!

Floating flowers makes a floating flag.

Minimalistic.

Another one.

From Indonesia. See the 'leaf' on top? The artiste got skills man.

From Korea. Simple, symmetrical, stylo.

It wasn't as aromatic as it should be.

And then there is one thing which doesn't seem to fit in with the whole event. I wonder what's the story behind this thing here.

Some homemade tribal thingy.

Actually, this kind of event is not my thing, but when you're bored, impossible is nothing. So me, Sam and Rouffy left after a short while and found other ways to kill time. Still it was quite beautiful, except for the really really hot weather.

Lari Lari

Chi Liang, for you...
After so long i'm writing again, so here goes.

26th of June 2011 was the day I went for the Standard Chartered KL Marathon in Dataran Merdeka. Running around in the heart of KL was a new and interesting thing to me I must say. I ran in the half marathon because the full marathon would have killed me. The half was murdering enough. 21.5 km in 2 hours 41 minutes (official time). The first place guy took just one hour plus. Less than half my time. At least I completed my first half marathon.

Before the race 6 a.m.

So how was it? The first 2 I ran really slowly, just to warm up. Then up to 10 km it was not bad, still ok, still going strong. Maybe because I have ran that far before. But after that my legs started to give way, had to take a lot of walking breaks and I found my self anticipating the distance markers even more. 11.5 km... 12.5.... 13.5... Damn... The distance markers can really psycho you when it takes its own sweet time to appear even when you felt that you ran for so long.

When I saw the 16.5 km marker, I thought "enough lets just run until 19km, then walk the extra 2". So I ran and ran, lari lari and must have missed the 17.5 km distance marker and before I knew it, I was like "aik, already at 19". Suddenly got semangat so I upped the ante and continued running (and walking) till I crossed the finish line.

Finally back here again

Prize giving, top spots kena sapu by Kenyans.

Haha.. kids zone

Really challenging I tell you, physically and mentally. Distance markers can really help you out in the beginning and the end but in the middle it makes it seem like you're not making any significant progress at all. Luckily there were a lot of people so you're never lonely. Plus the cheerleaders cheering you on halfway through brings you back to your senses.

So what I saw on the way? We passed the old KL KTM station, little india (Brickfields), KLCC, Pavilion, and some other not so memorable places. And we even saw a rainbow on the way. Would I do it again? hmmm.. Hard to tell.

Blingy.. finisher medal... The most solid and heavy medal I have